Finance Jobs in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,007 2,444 3,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.06% 13.23% 20.02%
As % of the General category 24.19% 24.42% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,686 1,513
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,125 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,112 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -1.62% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,717 £84,964 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.55% +1.96%

All General Skills
North of England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,296 10,010 11,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.50% 54.20% 69.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 7,485 4,989
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.90% +3.15%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North of England.

Salary trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West 0 1,385 £58,500 +11.43% 801
Yorkshire +1 446 £57,850 +2.39% 373
North East -1 175 £55,000 +10.00% 142
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (3.89%) Confluence
2 55 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
4 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.65%) SAS
6 6 (0.30%) Apache
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.15%) GemFire
9 2 (0.100%) CMS
9 2 (0.100%) nginx
9 2 (0.100%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.050%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.050%) CICS
10 1 (0.050%) Moodle
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.050%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.050%) WebLogic
Applications
1 113 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.80%) Trello
6 11 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.20%) SPSS
10 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 57 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.80%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.50%) Infor LN
4 10 (0.50%) SAP BPC
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.25%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.25%) Sage CRM
7 4 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.20%) Shopify
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.15%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.15%) Maximo
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.100%) Magento
9 2 (0.100%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.100%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.100%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 306 (15.25%) Azure
2 229 (11.41%) AWS
3 155 (7.72%) GCP
4 94 (4.68%) Power Platform
5 43 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (1.84%) GitHub
7 30 (1.49%) SaaS
8 29 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (0.65%) Serverless
11 12 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
11 12 (0.60%) Cloud Composer
12 11 (0.55%) Entra ID
13 10 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (0.40%) Snowflake
16 7 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.35%) Figma
16 7 (0.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 396 (19.73%) DNS
1 396 (19.73%) VPN
2 15 (0.75%) SAN
3 14 (0.70%) Network Security
4 11 (0.55%) Firewall
4 11 (0.55%) Internet
4 11 (0.55%) Intranet
5 9 (0.45%) Broadband
5 9 (0.45%) WAN
5 9 (0.45%) Wireless
6 7 (0.35%) DHCP
6 7 (0.35%) NAS
7 6 (0.30%) LAN
8 5 (0.25%) DKIM
8 5 (0.25%) DNSSEC
8 5 (0.25%) HTTP
8 5 (0.25%) SMTP
8 5 (0.25%) VLAN
8 5 (0.25%) VSAN
8 5 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (8.17%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.09%) Power BI
3 46 (2.29%) Tableau
4 43 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 42 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.54%) Big Data
8 25 (1.25%) MySQL
8 25 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 23 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 13 (0.65%) Cloud Spanner
13 11 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.50%) Relational Database
14 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 8 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 194 (9.67%) JIRA
2 132 (6.58%) SonarQube
3 125 (6.23%) Selenium
4 122 (6.08%) Cucumber
5 120 (5.98%) GitLab
5 120 (5.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 117 (5.83%) Maven
7 116 (5.78%) Bitbucket
8 63 (3.14%) Git
9 42 (2.09%) Jenkins
10 18 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
11 14 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.45%) JUnit
13 6 (0.30%) JMeter
13 6 (0.30%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.25%) Postman
14 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.20%) Appium
15 4 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 706 (35.18%) Analytical Skills
2 643 (32.04%) Social Skills
3 527 (26.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 422 (21.03%) Banking
5 186 (9.27%) Marketing
6 184 (9.17%) Manufacturing
7 154 (7.67%) Retail
8 100 (4.98%) Legal
9 77 (3.84%) Investment Banking
10 72 (3.59%) Corporate Banking
11 63 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.24%) Financial Institution
13 43 (2.14%) Law
14 33 (1.64%) Public Sector
15 23 (1.15%) Advertising
16 22 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.05%) Military
17 21 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 17 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 447 (22.27%) Developer
2 389 (19.38%) Software Developer
3 272 (13.55%) Analyst
4 203 (10.11%) Software Engineer
5 183 (9.12%) Senior
6 141 (7.03%) Project Manager
7 117 (5.83%) Lead
8 99 (4.93%) Development Manager
9 89 (4.43%) Product Manager
10 82 (4.09%) Product Development Manager
11 74 (3.69%) Architect
12 66 (3.29%) Data Analyst
13 54 (2.69%) Financial Analyst
14 45 (2.24%) Automation Engineer
14 45 (2.24%) Senior Manager
15 42 (2.09%) Systems Engineer
16 40 (1.99%) Delivery Project Manager
17 39 (1.94%) Customer Executive
18 38 (1.89%) Senior Software Engineer
19 36 (1.79%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (8.12%) React
1 163 (8.12%) Spring
2 155 (7.72%) Spring Boot
3 144 (7.17%) Kafka
4 141 (7.03%) CSS
5 138 (6.88%) HTML
6 113 (5.63%) Redux
7 112 (5.58%) JPA
8 104 (5.18%) RESTful
9 93 (4.63%) REST
10 77 (3.84%) CSS3
11 76 (3.79%) HTML5
12 75 (3.74%) Jest
13 72 (3.59%) Sass
14 51 (2.54%) .NET
15 46 (2.29%) Node.js
16 45 (2.24%) Hibernate
17 36 (1.79%) Software Packaging
18 19 (0.95%) AngularJS
19 17 (0.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 391 (19.48%) Cyberattack
2 208 (10.36%) Product Ownership
3 185 (9.22%) Management Information System
4 159 (7.92%) FMCG
5 126 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (2.74%) Social Media
7 48 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (2.34%) Operational Technology
9 42 (2.09%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 34 (1.69%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.49%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.44%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.15%) Onboarding
15 20 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 18 (0.90%) Mainframe
17 16 (0.80%) Credit Risk
18 15 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
19 14 (0.70%) Derivative
20 13 (0.65%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 429 (21.38%) Linux
2 394 (19.63%) Android
3 75 (3.74%) Windows
4 22 (1.10%) Windows Vista
5 11 (0.55%) Unix
6 10 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.35%) zOS
9 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (42.75%) Agile
2 475 (23.67%) Line Management
3 466 (23.22%) Mathematics
4 433 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (20.98%) OOP
6 416 (20.73%) OO
7 400 (19.93%) Design Patterns
8 388 (19.33%) Android Development
9 325 (16.19%) Project Management
10 298 (14.85%) Software Engineering
11 296 (14.75%) DevOps
12 289 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 232 (11.56%) CI/CD
14 212 (10.56%) Mentoring
15 203 (10.11%) Decision-Making
16 200 (9.97%) Test Automation
17 198 (9.87%) Microservices
18 193 (9.62%) Analytics
19 189 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
20 168 (8.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 639 (31.84%) Java
2 499 (24.86%) Python
3 401 (19.98%) C++
3 401 (19.98%) Go
4 263 (13.10%) SQL
5 173 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 130 (6.48%) TypeScript
7 54 (2.69%) C#
8 26 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 22 (1.10%) PHP
10 16 (0.80%) ABAP
11 13 (0.65%) Bash
11 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.50%) Bicep
12 10 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.45%) R
13 9 (0.45%) Ruby
14 5 (0.25%) VB
15 4 (0.20%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 440 (21.92%) Degree
2 419 (20.88%) Security Cleared
3 395 (19.68%) DV Cleared
4 122 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (4.09%) DBS Check
6 73 (3.64%) ACCA
6 73 (3.64%) HNC
7 72 (3.59%) CIMA
8 41 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 28 (1.40%) CCAB
11 20 (1.00%) SC Cleared
12 19 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.95%) PMP
13 16 (0.80%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.80%) CISSP
13 16 (0.80%) ICAEW
13 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.60%) CIPFA
15 11 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (11.46%) QA
2 89 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 79 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.49%) NEBOSH
5 26 (1.30%) GDPR
6 25 (1.25%) SLA
7 22 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.90%) EMIR
8 18 (0.90%) MiFID
9 17 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.75%) IFRS
12 10 (0.50%) COBIT
12 10 (0.50%) PMO
13 9 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.40%) NIST
15 6 (0.30%) GAAP
15 6 (0.30%) ITGC
16 4 (0.20%) Basel II
System Software
1 590 (29.40%) Docker
2 23 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.050%) XenApp
7 1 (0.050%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 410 (20.43%) Ansible
2 217 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.24%) Terraform
4 16 (0.80%) Progress Chef
5 13 (0.65%) Grafana
6 10 (0.50%) Istio
7 8 (0.40%) Puppet
8 7 (0.35%) SCCM
9 4 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.20%) Kibana
10 3 (0.15%) Argo
10 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.100%) Control-M
11 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.050%) CA Service Virtualization
12 1 (0.050%) logstash
12 1 (0.050%) SCOM
12 1 (0.050%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 131 (6.53%) SAP
3 119 (5.93%) Solace
4 90 (4.48%) Oracle
5 56 (2.79%) Google
6 53 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.09%) Rockwell
7 42 (2.09%) Siemens
8 30 (1.49%) IBM
9 26 (1.30%) VMware
10 25 (1.25%) Bloomberg
11 20 (1.00%) Cisco
12 19 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.90%) BT
14 14 (0.70%) Cognos
15 10 (0.50%) Concur
15 10 (0.50%) Dell
15 10 (0.50%) Infor
15 10 (0.50%) Sage
16 8 (0.40%) Databricks